Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1887-03-22

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A few evenings sincs there gathered l
10 ths little room Of the Chamber Of
Cemmerce, the Executive Committee Of |
that body. They hsd come 10 discuss
the situation, the outlook, tie immedi- |
ate interests Of the eommunity-ins short, |
the strange attitude Of the Northern Pa
eifie Railroad Company toward the city. |
A thorough. free, universal expression |
Of opinion vas had. Things we're said |
that have not ever before been voiced |
By any save what is termed the mob |
element" The Executive Committee is |
composed of General Spnlgue. J. n. |
Buckley, W. j. Thompson, @. N. Master
sou, W. D. Tyler, /. W. Anderson, y ~. |
Nolan, g. II. Wheeler and A. @. Mason. |
These are all not only among the |
leading business men Of tke city, bat |
they are gentlemen, and il must not be |
understood thst they talked in that
coarse, vulgar way peculiar alone to the |
''msb element What they said was
couched in such terms as would not |
have offended the ear Of the most polite, |
bat the sentences were strong, straight
forward. honest. and suggested pictures
wholly different in color to that which it
has long been the custom 10 paint. /
They treated OF a laRgaFa, slow. behind
hand spirit as eviDced by she Northern
Pacific Railroad Company toward the
sity-so very laggard and slow that
A DOUBT
OF the honesty Of tire company's inten-
ton, born long ago, was now bred and
hOuFished everywhere.
Such discussion ran on, az stated, IN
checked until il had discovered all
present frettinQ and impatient under
the company's delay, and ready signs
lures we're affixed. finally, to q memoir
al, setting forth that "the citizsns Of
Tacoma, having come hither, invested |
their money and made their homes IN
der the assurance Of the Northern Pa
cific Railroad Company that il bad
made this the western terminus Of the |
main line, and would baild works, |
warehouses, depots, ETC., suitable for
the carrying on of such business as
would naturally flow to such point, |
and that there being little or no indica- |
ton of the ful6ilDeDt Of these promises
at present, notwithstanding the near
approach Of the completion OF the Cas- |
cade Division, therefore the Chamber |
of Commerce of the city Of Tacoma re-
spectfully calls upon the Northern Pa
cifc Railroad Company to make pes
itive declaration Of their intentions"
Ehfu "a the la nf |
course, but it is the exact intent of the |
memorial, as given to the PosT-INrEL- |
LIGENcKR representative yesterday |
morning by one who was present. He |
1.-THE latter thereapon began a general |
inquiry regarding the matter and the |
feeling il represented. He found il |
everywhere-where its existence had |
not been thought Of before. 1t emily
waited the asking, and the set expires
sion indicative of "the boom begins to- |
day" changed instantly. David Lister,
whose
FAITH IN TIE CITY
Has become a pFoYerb, who years ago
built his iron works and has been going
along steadily and unwaVeringly, pic
turing to ali who came TO him for liz
formation the wondeEous tFansforma
ton that was soon to take place on the
tide hats-he warmed TO the subject
With unexpected rapiditY.
'Such a memorial was adopted" be |
said, "but We are not ready TO say any |
thing about il yet. We will know what |
is 20 be done about il when General |
Anderson returns. He is nov in st. |
Paul. The fact is, however" be con-
tinued I'VE are waiting here for some |
thing to be zone. The company has |
been promising and promising but |
they do nothing, and we are sick of IL. |
The Cascade division will be COM |
pleted in a couple Of months, and yet |
nothing is ready here, no preparations
are being made. We lave been told |
that the shops and warehouses we're to |
be built out on the tide fats. They
have built fence out theFe-fencinR It
all about, but they do not even fill 1t in
to keep out the tides. / have some ten
lots over there on tbs other side of the
bay, which | bought With the express
understanding that those improvements
were 10 be made and the compaRy's
shops moved at onos. am waiting in
uncertainty. l intended to move my
shops there. but do not know what to
do. The site of my present shops,
understood, was to be used by the com
Rahl lbt hNhoAnf VI t1at III OtDAo nCuH0
was to be built there. When YOU look
at those idle piles stuck around the tide
flats for q fence, and then lock at the
copy of the West Shore of so long ago as
January, 1883, containing pictures Of
the
EXCLUSIVE GRAIN ELEVATORS
That were to have occupied that place
at the end OF that year according to the
promises Of the Company, It Is enough
to make one smile"
Mr., Lister here prodneed COPY Of
the josrnal referred to, showing ''the
plan for proposed grain elevator, New
Tacoma" which was to extend, be says,
TO old town and vas to have been COM
pleied in that year, 1883, the plans hav-
ing been furnished to the publisher Of
the West Shore and authority given by
the company for their reproduction
With the accompanying statements:
"fhe company has given as its reason
for delay the inability to complete the
Cascade Division. That trouble has
been removed and the question now
arises why they are not at work on these
elevators Why, they are doing absO-
lu,ely nothing here to show that this Is
the permanet terminus. Toe fact lie,
there is nothing permanent about it
yet"
WI. Fife is another who IL largely
interested in Tacoma He Was even
more radical in bis expressions when the
topic Was suggested. 1T has Just eeme
TO this," he said. I'VE want 10 see the
Nor bern Pacific Railroad Company do
something here before We will do any
thing more. They say: Why don't
We build 2 New We say, Why don't
thew build ? We have been waiting
year after year living on promises. They
do nothing. There is not platform 80
far on which they could do business
here when the line IL completed. The
spring Is going. the SIMMER will soon
De here and where " the provision for
The fall business don't understand
il, There IL some mystery about Il all
that We cans get st. some power that
saws be stir and everything Is very
oRDTKSTLI oUIET.
They have told us they wOuld bald
shops here. but there are no sbops; they
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